"How... did you know?"
Cao Yuan's tone had changed, with a hint of resentment: "Or, have you always known?"
"I knew it from the first time I saw you."
I smiled. The place where the black man kicked my chest still hurt a lot. The turbulent blood had basically calmed down, but my lungs were still burning when I breathed. When I sat, I always felt that there was a breath in my stomach pressing against my chest. It was so uncomfortable that I just lay down.
In the desert at night, the sand is soft and cold. When I lie down, a little bit of cool air penetrates my clothes and seeps into my back. I feel much more comfortable for a while. Looking at the sparse stars in the sky, I whispered: "In fact, Zhou Jing calculated your substitute, and he also calculated that your substitute should be in the west. You set out with us this time with the purpose of resolving the cause and effect between you and the substitute, right? Your purpose is completely different from ours. I am for friends, and you are for yourself."
Cao Yuan was silent for a long time, and suddenly asked me: "Then why don't you expose me?"
"Qingyi is keeping secrets for you, why should I expose you!"
I shook my head and whispered: "In fact, I can understand you. Over the years, you should be exhausted by your substitute, right? As an ordinary person, I completely understand your feelings, because at the beginning I I have also experienced the feeling of being restless day and night. "
"Thank you, you are the one who takes the best care of me among all people. If you hadn't saved me again and again, I would have died long ago."
Cao Yuan's attitude was very sincere, and then she followed my example and lay on one side, resting her hands on her head and looking up at the starry sky. After a long time, she finally began to slowly tell her story: "Since I was very young, probably since I can remember, I have been dreaming, dreaming the same dream - in the dream, I was wearing gorgeous clothes, but not the curved hem deep clothes of our Han people, but a kind of gauze skirt similar to that of Western countries, with gold threads dotted on the silk, shining under the lights, very, very beautiful, going in and out, there would always be many servants and servants surrounding me, and an old king who loved me very much, he seemed to be my father. He in the dream He spoke to me a language I had never come into contact with, but I could understand the meaning of those languages.
He... seemed to be telling me a long story and a great nation. He said that this nation was called "Han".
He often sighed - no matter how great a country is, it cannot withstand the bite of a pack of wolves, and no matter how majestic an emperor is, he cannot withstand the erosion of time, just like an old lion, vulnerable!
He told me that in the east of us, there was once a very powerful empire called the Han Empire. Their army had iron-like discipline, but they were as cruel and brave as jackals, and were more vicious than the Huns. When they went deep into the desert, they killed people wherever they went. They once swept across the entire Western Regions with only 2,000 people, and even captured one of our ancestors, saying "Those who offend the powerful Han will be punished even if they are far away." The surrounding countries were all in awe, and all nations paid homage to them. . Unfortunately, such a powerful empire perished more than a hundred years ago. Now, many heroes are fighting for supremacy on the land of that empire. Many nomadic peoples in the surrounding areas have rushed into that land to plunder. The ethnic groups that can enter that place will reach an unprecedented level of prosperity. That land is like magic, sprinkled with gold and wealth.
The old emperor smiled and said that he also wanted to go to that place to grab a bite of food, but he was old. If God would let him live forever, he would definitely be able to establish a great cause. Fortunately, he found a way to live forever. An expert told him that in our west, at the end of the Silk Road, there is a country called Daqin. That country has something that makes people live forever. That country was once very powerful, but now the remnants of the Huns have run there and the country has fallen apart, so he decided to send troops there to seek immortality.
Unfortunately, the army never came back after they set out, and the old emperor died within two months. Then in my dream, I wore a crown and was pushed onto a very high seat, where I could look down on many people!
As a result, not long after I sat on that seat, a large number of troops attacked me, and many people died. The scene in my dream was bloody, with piles of corpses, rolling heads, and blazing fires...
Later, before those troops entered my room, I was killed by an old man who pushed me onto that very high seat. He shouted angrily, "I would rather die than be insulted by bandits"...
Then, I dreamed that I seemed to be imprisoned somewhere after my death. There was no freedom there, it was cold and dark, and some unusual breaths drilled into my body every day, It hurt a lot, just like a needle stabbing my body. I couldn't stand it, so I ran away..."
Speaking of this, Cao Yuan took a deep breath: "When I was older, about 12 years old, I finally stopped having the same dream day after day, and then I started to have another dream. The me in the dream, wearing a golden dress, kept roaring. Her roar was very, very shrill. She always said to me - 'This is the suffering you should suffer, but you ran away and let me suffer for you. I hate you and curse you to be lonely all your life. Even if you reincarnate, you will not have any happiness! ', I had such a dream for a long time, exhausted...
Later, I started to learn knowledge. When I first saw the word Loulan in the history textbook, I was shaking with excitement. There was a voice in my heart telling me - I came from Loulan! "
After a pause, Cao Yuan sighed softly: "Then... I found that everything around me became strange. Everyone who was close to me started to have bad luck. Even my boyfriend when I was 18 years old died in a car accident the day after we confirmed our relationship. And I was very prone to encountering some strange things. In your words, I was very prone to encountering dirty things! !
The first time I encountered dirty things was on the seventh day after my boyfriend died. I went to bed very early that night, but soon after I fell asleep, I found someone standing by my bed and constantly stroking my hair. I opened my eyes and saw that the person stroking my hair was my dead boyfriend, but he looked very scary, covered in blood, his skull was broken, and his face was full of brains. That was how he looked when he was hit by a car. I heard from an eyewitness that he was directly caught under the tire and dragged out by the car for more than ten meters. His skull was completely broken in the process and he died on the spot. When he met me, he looked dead. He looked so hideous and scary, but he smiled very gently to me and told me that today was the night of his return to the dead. But he did not go home to see me, but came to see me because he loved me, so there were some things he had to tell me. He said that there was something that did not allow me to find a boyfriend, did not allow me to be happy, and asked me not to fall in love with others in the future, and not to let the people who loved me die for me...
That time, he did not harm me, but just sat by my bed and accompanied me all night, and left when the sun rose. I have never forgotten his words, so I have never found a boyfriend in these years.
The most dangerous time was actually the day I reported to the university. After I reported that day, I took the last midnight bus home. There was only one person on the bus, a woman with very long hair. Her voice was very unpleasant and eerie, but she liked to talk to me. She talked all the way. Then when she got off the bus, she even walked with me and said she would take me home. When she started walking, I found that she was walking on tiptoe, and her heels didn't touch the ground. At this time, I suddenly remembered what was said in a metaphysics book I had read. It said that the evil ghosts at midnight walked without their heels touching the ground, because there was no yang energy and they were not grounded, so their heels couldn't land. I was really scared at the time. I pushed her away and ran, and she chased me from behind. When I looked back at her, I found that the bus driver was actually a paper man, still smiling at me and honking the horn...
I ran and ran, and after running for a while, I suddenly met a person, this person was Qingyi
Qingyi saved me, and then he told me that I encountered these things because I had a substitute. In another place that I couldn't see, there was a ghost with the same horoscope as me who was suffering for me. The ghost was very angry, so he kept cursing me. If I want to survive, I should learn the knowledge of the Western Regions. Since I have that special feeling for Loulan, my karma in my previous life should be there. "
"Since then, I have been studying the history of the Western Regions, not because I yearn for the 36 countries in the Western Regions, but because I want to survive. Until some time ago, Qingyi suddenly found me and said that he was going to the Western Regions recently. It happened that he would use my knowledge and could help me solve the problem. So I followed Qingyi without saying a word, and walked and walked, and came here. "
After saying this, Cao Yuan suddenly looked at me. Her eyes were particularly bright in the dark night, with a hint of pleading: "Brother Tian, can you save me? When I settle the karma of my previous life, you will definitely help me, right? Because you are a good person. "
I fell silent for a moment. It was dangerous for outsiders to interfere in the matter of substitutes, especially Cao Yuan's substitute looked very vicious. Zhou Jing had always warned me not to interfere in her affairs, otherwise it would be bad for me. But looking at Cao Yuan's eyes, I suddenly softened my heart, then nodded heavily and said in a deep voice: "A man's promise must be fulfilled even if he dies!"
So, Cao Yuan smiled, and I smiled too. Although I felt a lot of pressure, I suddenly felt relieved - at least, my heart had not become indifferent in this world of profit and loss.